When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.
Interpretation
Being honest allows us to express our true selves without needing to force a sense of individuality.
Josef Albers emphasizes the power of honesty in self-revelation. By being genuine and truthful, we naturally showcase our individuality and essence, rather than striving to be different for the sake of it. This quote suggests that authenticity will inherently distinguish us from others, eliminating the need to artificially construct our identities.
In practice
During a team meeting, you might quote Albers to emphasize the importance of honesty in fostering creativity.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon β it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.
If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.
So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?
Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"
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